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Australia’s Scary Spiders

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Are You a Problem Solver?

There's a very famous jumping spider, but a name of Porsche. She can detour and work out escape routes. This is really problem-solving behaviour. There's also learning. Spine has actually learned that there's always damage on the right-hand side so they start shifting to the left-hand side. They exhibit something that looks like REM sleep. A researcher in Germany had very recently discovered this,. all animals sleep, or have some sort of sleep state. And if they're REM sleeping, like us, are they dreaming? And what might a spider be dreaming? It's wonderful idea as you said. We have some samples... Well, they're not living spiders,

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